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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.b
Subject: Re: Greenwich Mean Time vs. Local Time Zones
Message-ID: <722@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Jan-86 14:33:02 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.722
Posted: Sat Jan 25 14:33:02 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 05:47:11 EST
References: <8489@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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In article <8489@ucla-cs.ARPA> guy@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>I recently discovered that Usenet is now exclusively using GMT for all
>article timestamps.  (I normally filter out the various date/time lines
>of the header.)  To placate those (like me) who want the local time,
>on those rare occasions when I need to look at the time fields,
>I propose that a place be provided for the local time interpretation.

Rather, the news reading programs (rn, readnews, vnews) should display (or at
least have an option to display) the timestamps in local time.  It should be
up to the local site to understand the conversion from GMT to the local time
and having extra date fields is wasteful.
-- 
Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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